Monday, June 30, 2014
Research position in Applied Genomics @ ICRISAT
Responsibilities :
- Genotyping with SSR and SNP markers
- Construction and quantification of DNA/RNA libraries for Illumina Hiseq/Miseq
- Handling Covaris and Biorupter for DNA shearing for the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
- Compiling and analysis of NGS data
- Maintaining records for consumables at CEG
- Any other assignment/activity assigned by the supervisors.
- Good knowledge about molecular biology and genomics activities.
- Fluency in English (both written and spoken);
- Should be a good team player and adaptable to working in multicultural team
- Graduate (B.Sc. – Agriculture / Biological Sciences) with related experience.
- Experience in handling Next Generation Sequencing instruments related to work mentioned above will be plus.
- Proficiency in Computer skills (MS- Office, data analysis), databases, etc.
Last date : 20 July 2014
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SRF at BHU, Varanasi
- Position : JRF
- No of Post : One
- Fellowship : Rs 16000/- (NET-JRF), Rs 12000/- (For NET-LS/GATE) + HRA
- Project title : CSIR project "Studies on mechanism of auto regulation of Pax6 functions"
- Duration : June 31, 2015
- Position : SRF
- No of Post : One
- Fellowship : Rs 18000/- + HRA
- Project title : ICMR project "Studies on mechanism of auto regulation of Pax6 functions in aging brain of mice"
- Duration : June 30, 2016
- Desired Profile : JRF candidate should be NET/GATE qualified with M.Sc in Zoology/Life Sciences/Biotechnology/Biochemistry/Human and Molecular Genetics/Neurobiology and Bioinformatics. Applicant for SRF should have two year of research experience with research with research publications.
Deadline : 17.07.14
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JRF Vacancy @ Karunya University
Inviting Applications for the post of JRF under DST-SERB project. Qualification: M.Sc./M.Tech. in Biochemistry, Biotechnology or Biology Stipend Rs.16000/pm for NET qualified and Others RS.12000/pm. Last Date for Submission: 30th June 2014 Contact: Dr.V.M.Berlin Grace, Professor, Dept.Biotechnology, Karunya University, Coimbatore-641114. Mobile: 9894051175
email: berlin@karunya.edu, berlsdg@gmail.com
Research associate @ Parthys Reverse Informatics
Job Description :
Perform various research Bio-info and biotech research analysis.
Skills Required :
- Good analytical skills
- Knowledge in Genetics and Pharmacology is an added advantage
Experinece Required : 0-3 years
How to Apply :
Interested candidates can send their resumes to careers@reverseinformatics.com
Saturday, June 28, 2014
TL- OPERATIONS
TL Operations
by Randstad India Limited in Ahmedabad
Experience: 7 to 9 yrs.Posted on: 24 Jun
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The Operations Team Leader [OTL] is responsible for effectively managing production activities and resources, for a specified manufacturing area, to deliver the agreed to business results and drive continuous improvement while maintaining positive employee relations. The OTL achieves this through collaborative partnerships with Supply Chain colleagues and cross-functional partners. The primary accountabilities of the role include daily production schedule adherence, customer service, area financial performance, implementation of Operational Excellence initiatives (EOHS, Quality, FP&R), Microbiology, Labor Relations, people and team development.
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Managing Production Managing resources (Man, Machine, Materials) efficiently, guiding the line teams in minimising downtime through direct personal involvement & active presence on the shopfloor
High level of service to Internal & External customers Operational Excellence initiatives (EOHS, Quality, FP&R) activities of the production area
Labour Relations Communication, Coaching & Feedback, Active presence on the shopfloor, Small Group meetings
Conversion cost Track and analyse financial variances associated with materials and other elements of conversion cost
Adherence to Regulatory compliances and CP Standard expectations related to area of responsibility Developing an understanding of the requirements, cross functional collaboration and maintaining vigil
Ensuring compliance to Facility policies & procedures viz. crewing norms, shift rotation, leave planning etc
Development of People , Teams and developing Organisational capabilities Training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, delegation, and performance management
Experience
Essential: Managing Production and/or Maintenance in FMCG Industry in a GMP Environment
Desirable: Exposure to SCADA Controlled Batch manufacturing processes or High speed Packaging lines
The Operations Team Leader [OTL] is responsible for effectively managing production activities and resources, for a specified manufacturing area, to deliver the agreed to business results and drive continuous improvement while maintaining positive employee relations. The OTL achieves this through collaborative partnerships with Supply Chain colleagues and cross-functional partners. The primary accountabilities of the role include daily production schedule adherence, customer service, area financial performance, implementation of Operational Excellence initiatives (EOHS, Quality, FP&R), Microbiology, Labor Relations, people and team development.
Key Accountabilities (A collection of duties and/or responsibilities assigned)
Accountability Related Activities
Managing Production Managing resources (Man, Machine, Materials) efficiently, guiding the line teams in minimising downtime through direct personal involvement & active presence on the shopfloor
High level of service to Internal & External customers Operational Excellence initiatives (EOHS, Quality, FP&R) activities of the production area
Labour Relations Communication, Coaching & Feedback, Active presence on the shopfloor, Small Group meetings
Conversion cost Track and analyse financial variances associated with materials and other elements of conversion cost
Adherence to Regulatory compliances and CP Standard expectations related to area of responsibility Developing an understanding of the requirements, cross functional collaboration and maintaining vigil
Ensuring compliance to Facility policies & procedures viz. crewing norms, shift rotation, leave planning etc
Development of People , Teams and developing Organisational capabilities Training, information sharing, coaching, feedback, delegation, and performance management
Experience
Essential: Managing Production and/or Maintenance in FMCG Industry in a GMP Environment
Desirable: Exposure to SCADA Controlled Batch manufacturing processes or High speed Packaging lines
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Analyst post @ GVW Technologies
Job Title: Analyst / Senior Analyst
- Eligibility: B.Sc / M.Sc Life Sceinces
- Experience: 0-4 Years
- Location: Chennai
- No.of Openings: 4
Microbiologist @ Polypeptide
Job Title : Microbiologist (Executive)
Job Code: QM1
Job Description :
- Responsible for overall functioning of the Microbiology lab in accordance with cGLP and Regulatory requirements.
- Exposure to new laboratory set up including validation /qualification of equipment.
- Ensure the quality of Purified, drinking and DM water, environmental monitoring and good understanding of Endotoxin testing.
Experience Required : 2-3 years
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Friday, June 27, 2014
All India Biotech Association
All India Biotech Association (AIBA) was established in 1994 as a non- profit Society to provide common Apex Forum at the national level to represent the interests of all those engaged in various aspects of Biotechnology. One of the main objectives of AIBA is to Promote and safeguard the overall interests of Biotechnology as a science, profession, industry & trade. In August, 1999, the Southern Chapter of AIBA has started Functioning at Hyderabad.
AIBA aims to cover all areas in Biotechnology field Namely
- Pharmaceuticals & Medical Equipments.
- Agriculture, Plantations, Horticulture, Floriculture, Aquaculture, Tissue-culture etc. inculding Biofertilisers, Biopesticides and Biocintrol agents.
- Hardware including Machinery, Equipment, Instruments etc. and vsoftware.
- Industrial Biotechnology products and applictions.
WNS Gurgaon is US Healthcare Insurance Claims Process
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Should be comfortable with Calling(40%)
Night shift only ( 6 pm - 3 am )
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6th Floor WNS Global services,
Infinity towers A, DLF Cyber city
DLF phase-II, near shankar chowk
Nearest metro Sikanderpur
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DLF phase-II, near shankar chowk
Nearest metro Sikanderpur
Openings for both Freshers and experienced candidate
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THE HISTORY OF DRUGS
THE HISTORY OF DRUGS
- Drug use and abuse is as old as mankind itself. Human beings have always had a desire to eat or drink substances that make them feel relaxed, stimulated, or euphoric. Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 BC in
China
- As time went by, "home remedies" were discovered and used to alleviate aches, pains and other ailments. Most of these preparations were herbs, roots, mushrooms or fungi. They had to be eaten, drunk, rubbed on the skin, or inhaled to achieve the desired effect.
- One of the oldest records of such medicinal recommendations is found in the writings of the Chinese scholar-emperor Shen Nung, who lived in 2735 BC He compiled a book about herbs, a forerunner of the medieval pharmacopoeias that listed all the then-known medications.
- He was able to judge the value of some Chinese herbs. For example, he found that Ch'ang Shan was helpful in treating fevers. Such fevers were, and still are, caused by malaria parasites.
- South and Central American Indians made many prehistoric discoveries of drug-bearing plants. Mexican Aztecs even recorded their properties in hieroglyphics on rocks, but our knowledge of their studies comes mainly from manuscripts of Spanish monks and medical men attached to the forces of the conquistador Hernan Cortes (1485-1547).
- Pre-Columbian Mexicans used many substances, from tobacco to mind-expanding (hallucinogenic) plants, in their medicinal collections. The most fascinating of these substances are sacred mushrooms, used in religious ceremonies to induce altered states of mind, not just drunkenness.
- These were all naturally occurring substances. No refinement had occurred, and isolation of specific compounds (drugs) had not taken place.
- As the centuries unrolled and new civilizations appeared, cultural, artistic, and medical developments shifted toward the new centers of power. A reversal of the traditional search for botanical drugs occurred in
Greece
- Hippocrates' authority lasted throughout the Middle Ages and reminded alchemists and medical experimenters of the potential of inorganic drugs. In fact, a distant descendant of Hippocrates' prescriptions was the use of antimony salts in elixirs (alcoholic solutions) advocated by Basilius Valentius in the middle of the 15th century and by the medical alchemist Phillippus Aureolus Paracelsus (born Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, in Switzerland, 1493-1541).
- South American Indians, especially those in the Peruvian Andes mountains, made several early discoveries of drug-bearing plants. Two of these plants contain alkaloids of worldwide importance that have become modern drugs. They are cocaine and quinine. Cocaine's potential for addiction was known and used with sinister intent by South American Indian chiefs hundreds of years ago.
- Sigmund Freud, the Austrian psychoanalyst (1856-1939), treated many deeply disturbed cocaine addicts. In the course of his practice, he noted the numbing effect of the drug. He called this effect to the attention of the clinical pharmacologist Carl Koller, who introduced cocaine as a local anesthetic into surgical procedures.
- But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. There followed a time when some of these newly discovered substances morphine, laudanum, cocaine were completely unregulated and prescribed freely by physicians for a wide variety of ailments. They were available in patent medicines and sold by traveling tinkers, in drugstores, or through the mail.
- During the American Civil War, morphine was used freely, and wounded veterans returned home with their kits of morphine and hypodermic needles. Cocaine and heroin were sold as patent medicines in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and marketed as treatments for a wide variety of ailments. Recreational use of opium was once common in
Asia , and from there spread to the West, peaking in the 19th century. Opium dens flourished. By the early 1900s there were an estimated 250,000 addicts in the United States
- The majority of human societies throughout history have practiced recreational drug use in various forms. Probably the best known example of a recreational drug is alcohol, which most cultures have manufactured in one form or another. As with any drugs, some recreational drugs are addictive, most are harmful to one's health, and some are illegal in most places.
- A wide variety of drugs have been employed for recreation at various times through history. By far the most popular recreational drug in modern society is caffeine, accepted by nearly all societies today. Also very popular are alcohol and nicotine in the form of tobacco, present and accepted in most cultures today. Despite relatively recent proscription as an illegal drug in much of the world, marijuana retains its historical popularity.
- The problems of addiction were recognized gradually. Legal measures against drug abuse in the
United States San Francisco
- In the 1930s most states required antidrug education in the schools, but fears that knowledge would lead to experimentation caused it to be abandoned in most places. Soon after the repeal of Prohibition, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now the Drug Enforcement Administration) began a campaign to portray marijuana as a powerful, addicting substance that would lead users into narcotics addiction. In the 1950s, use of marijuana increased again, along with that of amphetamines and tranquilizers.
- The intolerance of drug use that characterized the earlier decades of the Twentieth Century changed with the tremendous social changes and political upheavals of the 1960s. With new challenges to traditional values and beliefs, previous anti-drug rhetoric began to be seen as inaccurate and even ridiculous. Increasingly, drug policy became a referendum on the war in
Vietnam
- Elected by appealing to a “law and order” constituency, President Nixon saw the relaxation of intolerance for drug use as the first shot in a culture war. Nixon equated drug use with an attack on specific American traditions and the conservative world-view in general. He launched a vigorous campaign to turn the tide against the decriminalization and legalization forces, calling for a “War on Drugs” in the same manner that his predecessor Lyndon Johnson had called for a “War on Poverty.”
- Nixon also proposed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Control Act which attempted to rank addictive drugs according to their dangerousness and apply restrictions to the highest categories. This effort was fraught with difficulty since the degree to which drugs have been prohibited in the
United States
- The 1980s brought a decline in the use of most drugs, but cocaine and crack use soared. The military became involved in border patrols for the first time, and troops invaded Panama and brought its de facto leader, Manuel Noriega, to trial for drug trafficking.
- Throughout the years, the public's perception of the dangers of specific substances changed. The surgeon general's warning label on tobacco packaging gradually made people aware of the addictive nature of nicotine. By 1995, the Food and Drug Administration was considering its regulation. The recognition of fetal alcohol syndrome brought warning labels to alcohol products. The addictive nature of prescription drugs such as diazepam (Valium) became known, and caffeine came under scrutiny as well.
- Drug laws have tried to keep up with the changing perceptions and real dangers of substance abuse. By 1970 over 55 federal drug laws and countless state laws specified a variety of punitive measures, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty. To clarify the situation, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 repealed, replaced, or updated all previous federal laws concerned with narcotics and all other dangerous drugs. While possession was made illegal, the severest penalties were reserved for illicit distribution and manufacture of drugs. The act dealt with prevention and treatment of drug abuse as well as control of drug traffic. The Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988 increased funding for treatment and rehabilitation; the 1988 act created the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Its director, often referred to as the drug "czar, " is responsible for coordinating national drug control policy.
Below is a timeline of the history of drugs
- 5000 BC The Sumerians use opium, suggested by the fact that they have an ideogram for it which has been translated as HUL, meaning "joy" or "rejoicing." [Alfred R. Lindesmith, *Addiction and Opiates.* p. 207]
- 3500 B.C. Earlist historical record of the production of alcohol: the description of a brewery in an an Egyptian papyrus. [Joel Fort, *The Pleasure Seekers*, p. 14]
- 3000 B.C. Approximate date of the supposed origin of the use of tea in
- 2500 B.C. Earlist historical evidence of the eating of poppy seeds among the
- 2000 B.C. Earliest record of prohibitionist teaching, by an Egyptian priest, who writes to his pupil: "I, thy superior, forbid thee to go to the taverns. Thou art degraded like beasts." [W.F. Crafts *et al*., *Intoxicating Drinks and Drugs*, p. 5]
- 350 B.C. Proverbs, 31:6-7: "Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more."
- 300 B.C. Theophrastus (371-287 B.C.), Greek naturalist and philosopher, records what has remained as the earlies undisputed reference to the use of poppy juice.
- 250 B.C. Psalms, 104:14-15: "Thou dost cause grass to grow for the cattle and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the heart of man.
- 350 A.D. Earliest mention of tea, in a Chinese dictionary.
- 4th century St. John Chrysostom (345-407), Bishop of Constantinople: "I hear man cry, 'Would there be no wine! O folly! O madness!' Is it wine that causes this abuse? No, for if you say, 'Would there were no light!' because of the informers, and would there were no women because of adultery." [Quoted in Berton Roueche, *The Neutral Spirit*, pp. 150-151]
- 450 Babylonian Talmud: "Wine is at the head of all medicines; where wine is lacking, drugs are necessary." [Quoted in
- c. 1000 Opium is widely used in
- 1493 The use of tobacco is introduced into
- c. 1500 According to J.D. Rolleston, a British medical historian, a medieval Russian cure for drunkenness consisted in "taking a piece of pork, putting it secretly in a Jew's bed for nine days, and then giving it to the drunkard in a pulverized form, who will turn away from drinking as a Jew would from pork." [Quoted in Roueche, op. cit. p. 144]
- c. 1525 Paracelsus (1490-1541) introduces laudanum, or tincture of opium, into the practice of medicine.
- 1600 Shakespeare: "Falstaff. . . . If I had a thousand sons the / first human principle I would teach them should / be, to foreswear thin portion and to addict themselves to sack." ("Sack" is an obsolete term for "sweet wine" like sherry). [William Shakespeare, *Second Part of King Henry the
- 17th century The prince of the petty state of Waldeck pays ten thalers to anyone who denounces a coffee drinker. [Griffith Edwards, Psychoactive substances, *The Listener*,
- 17th century In
- 1613 John Rolf, the husband of the Indian princess Pocahontas, sends the first shipment of
- c. 1650 The use of tobacco is prohibited in
- 1680 Thomas Syndenham (1625-80): "Among the remedies which it has pleased the Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and efficacious as opium." [Quoted in Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman, *The Pharmacological Basis of Theraputics*, First Edition (1941), p. 186]
- 1690 The "Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn" is enacted in
- 1691 In
- 1717 Liquor licenses in Middlesex (
- 1736 The Gin Act (
- 1745 The magistrates of one
- 1762 Thomas
- 1785 Benjamin Rush publishes his *Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Body and Mind*; in it, he calls the intemperate use of distilled spirits a "disease," and estimates the annual rate of death due to alcoholism in the United States as "not less than 4000 people" in a population then of less than 6 million. [Quoted in S. S. Rosenberg (Ed.), *Alcohol and Health*, p. 26]
- 1789 The first American temperance society is formed in
- 1790 Benjamin Rush persuades his associates at the Philadelphia College of Physicians to send an appeal to Congress to "impose such heavy duties upon all distilled spirits as shall be effective to restrain their intemperate use in the country." [Quoted in ibid.]
- 1792 The first prohibitory laws against opium in
- 1792 The Whisky Rebellion, a protest by farmers in western
- 1800 Napoleon's army, returning from
- 1801 On
- 1804 Thomas Trotter, an Edinburgh physician, publishes *An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and Its Effects on the Human Body*: "In medical language, I consider drunkenness, strictly speaking, to be a disease, produced by a remote cause, and giving birth to actions and movements in the living body that disorder the functions of health. . . The habit of drunkenness is a disease of the mind." [Quoted in Roueche, op. cit. pp. 87-88]
- 1805 Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner, a German chemist, isolates and describes morphine.
- 1822 Thomas De Quincey's *Confessions of an English Opium Eater* is published. He notes that the opium habit, like any other habit, must be learned: "Making allowance for constitutional differences, I should say that *in less that 120 days* no habit of opium-eating could be formed strong enough to call for any extraordinary self-conquest in renouncing it, even suddenly renouncing it. On Saturday you are an opium eater, on Sunday no longer such." [Thomas De Quincey, *Confessions of an English Opium Eater* (1822), p. 143]
- 1826 The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance is founded in
- 1839-42 The first Opium War. The British force upon
- 1840 Benjamin Parsons, and English clergyman, declares: ". . . alcohol stands preeminent as a destroyer. . . . I never knew a person become insane who was not in the habit of taking a portion of alcohol every day." Parsons lists forty-two distinct diseases caused by alcohol, among them inflammation of the brain, scrofula, mania, dropsy, nephritis, and gout. [Quoted in Roueche, op. cit. pp. 87-88]
- 1841 Dr. Jacques Joseph Moreau uses hashish in treatment of mental patients at the Bicetre.
- 1842 Abraham Lincoln: "In my judgment, such of us as have never fallen victims, have been spared more from the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. Indeed, I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class." [Abraham Lincoln, Temperance address, in Roy P. Basler Ed.), *The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 1, p. 258]
- 1844 Cocaine is isolated in its pure form.
- 1845 A law prohibiting the public sale of liquor is enacted in
- 1847 The American Medical Association is founded.
- 1852 Susan B. Anthony establishes the Women's State Temperance Society of New York, the first such society formed by and for women. Many of the early feminists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Abby Kelly, are also ardent prohibitionists. [Andrew Sinclar, *Era of Excess*, p. 92]
- 1852 The American Pharmaceutical Association is founded. The Association's 1856 Constitution lists one of its goals as: "To as much as possible restrict the dispensing and sale of medicines to regularly educated druggests and apothecaries. [Quoted in David Musto, *The American Disease*, p. 258]
- 1856 The Second Opium War. The British, with help from the French, extend their powers to distribute opium in
- 1862 Internal Revenue Act enacted imposing a license fee of twenty dollars on retail liquor dealers, and a tax of one dollar a barrel on beer and twenty cents a gallon on spirits. [Sinclare, op. cit. p 152]
- 1864 Adolf von Baeyer, a twenty-nine-year-old assistant of Friedrich August Kekule (the discoverer of the molecular structure of benzene) in
- 1868 Dr. George Wood, a professor of the theory and practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, president of the American Philosophical Society, and the author of a leading American test, *Treatise on Therapeutics*, describes the pharmacological effects of opium as follows: "A sensation of fullness is felt in the head, soon to be followed by a universal feeling of delicious ease and comfort, with an elevation and expansion of the whole moral and intellectual nature, which is, I think, the most characteristic of its effects. . . . It seems to make the individual, for the time, a better and greater man. . . . The hallucinations, the delirious imaginations of alcoholic intoxication, are, in general, quite wanting. Along with this emotional and intellectual elevation, there is also increased muscular energy; and the capacity to act, and to bear fatigue, is greatly augmented. [Quoted in Musto, op. cit. pp. 71-72]
- 1869 The Prohibition Party is formed. Gerrit Smith, twice Abolitionist candidate for President, an associate of John Brown, and a crusading prohibitionist, declares: "Our involuntary slaves are set free, but our millions of voluntary slaves still clang their chains. The lot of the literal slave, of him whom others have enslaved, is indeed a hard one; nevertheless, it is a paradise compared with the lot of him who has enslaved himself to alcohol." [Quoted in Sinclar, op. cit. pp. 83-84]
- 1874 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is founded in
- 1882 The law in the
- 1882 The Personal Liberty League of the
- 1883 Dr. Theodor Aschenbrandt, a German army physician, secures a supply of pure cocaine from the pharmaceutical firm of Merck, issues it to Bavarian soldiers during their maneuvers, and reports on the beneficial effects of the drug in increasing the soldiers' ability to endure fatigue. [Brecher et. al. op. cit. p. 272]
- 1884 Sigmund Freud treats his depression with cocaine, and reports feeling "exhilaration and lasting euphoria, which is in no way differs from the normal euphoria of the healthy person. . . You perceive an increase in self-control and possess more vitality and capacity for work. . . . In other words, you are simply more normal, and it is soon hard to believe that you are under the influence of a drug." [Quoted in Ernest Jones, *The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 1, p. 82]
- 1884 Laws are enacted to make anti-alcohol teaching compulsory in public schools in
- 1885 The Report of the Royal Commission on Opium concludes that opium is more like the Westerner's liquor than a substance to be feared and abhorred. [Quoted in Musto, op. cit. p. 29]
- 1889 The
- 1894 The Report of the Indian Hemp Drug Comission, running to over three thousand pages in seven volumes, is published. This inquiry, commissioned by the British government, concluded: "There is no evidence of any weight regarding the mental and moral injuries from the moderate use of these drugs. .. . . Moderation does not lead to excess in hemp any more than it does in alcohol. Regular, moderate use of ganja or bhang produces the same effects as moderate and regular doses of whiskey." The commission's proposal to tax bhang is never put into effect, in part, perhaps, because one of the commissioners, an Indian, cautions that Moslem law and Hindu custom forbid "taxing anything that gives pleasure to the poor." [Quoted in Norman Taylor, The pleasant assassin: The story of marihuana, in David Solomon (Ed.) *The Marijuana Papers*, pp. 31-47, p. 41]
- 1894 Norman Kerr, and English physician and president of the British Society for the study of Inebriety, declares: "Drunkenness has generally been regarded as . . . a sin a vice, or a crime. . . [But] there is now a consensus of intelligent opinion that habitual and periodic drunkenness is often either a symptom or sequel of disease . . . . The victim can no more resist [alcohol] than an man with ague can resist shivering. [Quoted in Roueche, op. cit., pp. 107-108]
- 1898 Diacetylmorphine (heroin) is synthesized in
- 1900 In an address to the Ecumenical Missionary Conference, Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts declares: "No Christian celebration of the completion of nineteen Christian centuries has yet been arranged. Could there be a fitter one than the general adoption, by separate and joint action of the great nations of the world, of the new policy of civilization, in which Great Britian is leading, the policy of prohibition for the native races, in the interest of commerce as well as conscience, since the liquor traffic among child races, even more manifestly than in civilized lands, injures all other trades by producing poverty, disease, and death. Our object, more profoundly viewed, is to create a more favorable environment for the child races that civilized nations are essaying to civilize and Christianize." [Quoted in Crafts, et. al., op. cit., p. 14]
- 1900 James R. L. Daly, writing in the *Boston Medical and Surgical Journal*, declares: "It [heroin] possesses many advantages over morphine. . . . It is not hypnotic; and there is no danger of acquiring the habit. . . ." [Quoted in Henry H. Lennard et. al. Methadone treatment (letters),*Science*, 179:1078-1079 (March 16), 1973; p. 1079]
- 1901 The Senate adopts a resolution, introduced by Henry Cabot Lodge, to forbid the sale by American traders of opium and alcohol "to aboriginal tribes and uncivilized races." Theses provisions are later extended to include "uncivilized elements in
- 1902 The Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit of the American Pharmaceutical Association declares: "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his 'dope,' we can get along without him." [Quoted in ibid, p. 17]
- 1902 George E. Petty, writing in the *Alabama Medical Journal*, observes: "Many articles have appeared in the medical literature during the last two years lauding this new agent . . . . When we consider the fact that heroin is a morphine derivative . . . it does not seem reasonable that such a claim could be well founded. It is strange that such a claim should mislead anyone or that there should be found among the members of our profession those who would reiterate and accentuate it without first subjecting it to the most critical tests, but such is the fact." [Quoted in Lennard et. al., op. cit. p. 1079]
- 1903 The composition of Coca-Cola is changed, caffeine replacing the cocaine it contained until this time. {Musto, op. cit. p. 43]
- 1904 Charles Lyman, president of the International Reform Bureau, petitions the President of the
- 1905 Senator Henry W. Blair, in a letter to Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, Superintendent of the International Reform Bureau: "The temperance movement must include all poisonous substances which create unnatural appetite, and international prohibition is the goal." [Quoted in ibid.]
- 1906 The first Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law; until its enactment, it was possible to buy, in stores or by mail order medicines containing morphine, cocaine, or heroin, and without their being so labeled.
- 1906 *Squibb's Materia Medical* lists heroin as "a remedy of much value . . . is is also used as a mild anodyne and as a substitute for morphine in combatting the morphine habit. [Quoted in Lennard et al., op. cit. p. 1079]
- 1909 The
- 1910 Dr. Hamilton Wright, considered by some the father of U.S. anti-narcotics laws, reports that American contractors give cocaine to their Negro employees to get more work out of them. [Musto, op. cit. p. 180]
- 1912 A writer in *Century* magazine proclaims: "The relation of tobacco, especially in the form of cigarettes, and alcohol and opium is a very close one. . . . Morphine is the legitimate consequence of alcohol, and alcohol is the legitimate consequence of tobacco. Cigarettes, drink, opium, is the logical and regular series." And a physician warns: "[There is] no energy more destructive of soul, mind, and body, or more subversive of good morals than the cigarette. The fight against the cigarette is a fight for civilization." [Sinclar, op. cit., p. 180]
- 1912 The first international Opium Convention meets at
- 1912 Phenobarbital is introduced into therapeutics under the trade name of Luminal.
- 1913 The Sixteenth Amendment, creating the legal authority for federal income tax, is enacted. Between 1870 and 1915, the tax on liquor provides from one-half to two-thirds of the whole of the internal revenue of the
- 1914 Dr. Edward H Williams cites Dr. Christopher Kochs "Most of the attack upon white women of the South are the direct result of the cocaine crazed Negro brain." Dr. Williams concluded that " . . Negro cocaine fiends are now a known Southern menace." [New York Times,
- 1914 The Harrison Narcotic Act is enacted, controlling the sale of opium and opium derivatives, and cocaine.
- 1914 Congressman Richard P. Hobson of
- 1916 The *Pharmacopoeia of the
- 1917 The president of the American Medical Association endorses national prohibition. The House of Delegates of the Association passes a resolution stating: "Resolved, The American Medical Association opposes the use of alcohol as a beverage; and be it further Resolved, That the use of alcohol as a therapeutic agent should be discourages." By 1928, physicians make an estimated $40,000,000 annually by writing prescriptions for whiskey." [Ibid. p. 61]
- 1917 The American Medical Association passes a resolution declaring that "sexual continence is compatible with health and is the best prevention of venereal infections," and one of the methods for controlling syphilis is by controlling alcohol. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels prohibits the practice of distributing contraceptives to sailors bound on shore leave, and Congress passes laws setting up "dry and decent zones" around military camps. "Many barkeepers are fined for selling liquor to men in uniform. Only at
- 1918 The Anti-Saloon League calls the "liquor traffic" "un-American," pro-German, crime-producing, food-wasting, youth-corrupting, home-wrecking, [and] treasonable." [Quoted in ibid. p. 121]
- 1919 The Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amendment is added to the U.S. Constitution. It is repealed in 1933. In the same year, violent crime drops two-thirds and does not reach the same levels again until after World War II.
- 1920 The U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes a pamphlet urging Americans to grow cannabis (marijuana) as a profitable undertaking. [David F. Musto, An historical perspective on legal and medical responses to substance abuse, *Villanova Law Review*, 18:808-817 (May), 1973; p. 816]
- 1920-1933 The use of alcohol is prohibited in the
- 1921 The U.S. Treasury Department issues regulations outlining the treatment of addiction permitted under the Harrison Act. In
- 1921 Thomas S. Blair, M.D., chief of the Bureau of Drug Control of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, publishes a paper in the *Journal of the American Medical Association* in which he characterizes the Indian peyote religion a "habit indulgence in certain cactaceous plants," calls the belief system "superstition" and those who sell peyote "dope vendors," and urges the passage of a bill in Congress that would prohibit the use of peyote among the Indian tribes of the Southwest. He concludes with this revealing plea for abolition: "The great difficulty in suppressing this habit among the Indians arises from the fact that the commercial interests involved in the peyote traffic are strongly entrenched, and they exploit the Indian. . . . Added to this is the superstition of the Indian who believes in the
- 1921 Cigarettes are illegal in fourteen states, and ninety-two anti-cigarette bills are pending in twenty-eight states. Young women are expelled from college for smoking cigarettes. [Brecher et al., op. cit. p. 492]
- 1921 The Council of the American Medical Association refuses to confirm the Associations 1917 Resolution on alcohol. In the first six months after the enactment of the Volstead Act, more than 15,000 physicians and 57,000 druggests and drug manufacturers apply for licenses to prescribe and sell liquor. [Sinclair, op. cit., p. 492]
- 1921 Alfred C. Prentice, M.D. a member of the Committee on Narcotic Drugs of the American Medical Association, declares "Public opinion regarding the vice of drug addiction has been deliberately and consistently corrupted through propaganda in both the medical and lay press. . . . The shallow pretense that drug addiction is a 'disease'. . . . has been asserted and urged in volumes of 'literature' by self-styled 'specialists.'" [Alfred C Prentice, The Problem of the narcotic drug addict, *Journal of the American Medical Association*, 76:1551-1556; p. 1553]
- 1924 The manufacture of heroin is prohibited in the
- 1925 Robert A. Schless: "I believe that most drug addiction today is due directly to the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act, which forbids the sale of narcotics without a physician's prescription. . . . Addicts who are broke act as *agent provocateurs* for the peddlers, being rewarded by gifts of heroin or credit for supplies. The Harrison Act made the drug peddler, and the drug peddler makes drug addicts." [Robert A. Schless, The drug addict, *American Mercury*, 4:196-199 (Feb.), 1925; p. 198]
- 1928 In a nationwide radio broadcast entitled "The Struggle of Mankind Against Its Deadlist Foe," celebrating the second annual Narcotic Education Week, Richmond P. Hobson, prohibition crusader and anti-narcotics propagandist, declares: "Suppose it were announced that there were more than a million lepers among our people. Think what a shock the announcement would produce! Yet drug addiction is far more incurable than leprosy, far more tragic to its victims, and is spreading like a moral and physical scourge. . . . Most of the daylight robberies, daring holdups, cruel murders and similar crimes of violence are now known to be committed chiefly by drug addicts, who constitute the primary cause of our alarming crime wave. Drug addiction is more communicable and less curable that leprosy. . . . Upon the issue hangs the perpetuation of civilization, the destiny of the world, and the future of the human race." [Quoted in Musto, *The American Disease*, p. 191]
- 1928 It is estimated that in
- 1929 About one gallon of denatured industrial in ten is diverted into bootleg liquor. About forty Americans per million die each year from drinking illegal alcohol, mainly as a result of methyl (wood) alcohol poisoning. [Sinclare, op. cit. p. 201]
- 1930 The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is formed. Many of its agents, including its first commissioner, Harry J. Anslinger, are former prohibition agents.
- 1935 The American Medical Association passes a resolution declaring that "alcoholics are valid patients." [Quoted in Neil Kessel and Henry Walton, *Alcoholism*, p. 21]
- 1936 The Pan-American Coffee Burreau is organized to promote coffee use in the
- 1937 Shortly before the Marijuana Tax Act, Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger writes: "How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, hold-ups, burglaries, and deeds of maniacal insanity it [marijuana] causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured." [Quoted in John Kaplan, *Marijuana*, p. 92]
- 1937 The Marijuana Tax Act is enacted.
- 1938 Since the enactment of the Harrison Act in 1914, 25,000 physicians have been arraigned on narcotics charges, and 3,000 have served penitentiary sentences. [Kolb, op. cit. p. 146]
- 1938 Dr. Albert Hoffman, a chemist at Sandoz Laboratories in
- 1941 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek orders the complete suppression of the poppy; laws are enacted providing the death penalty for anyone guilty of cultivating the poppy, manufacturing opium, or offering it for sale. [Lindesmith, *The Addict and the Law*, 198]
- 1943 Colonel J.M. Phalen, editor of the *Military Surgeon*, declares in an editorial entitled "The Marijuana Bugaboo": "The smoking of the leaves, flowers, and seeds of Cannibis sativa is no more harmful than the smoking of tobacco. . . . It is hoped that no witch hunt will be instituted in the military service over a problem that does not exist." [Quoted in ibid. p. 234]
- 1946 According to some estimates there are 40,000,000 opium smokers in
- 1949 Ludwig von Mises, leading modern free-market economist and social philosopher: "Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the principle is admitted that is the duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments. A good case could be made out in favor of the prohibition of alcohol and nicotine. And why limit the governments benevolent providence to the protection of the individual's body only? Is is not the harm a man can inflect on his mind and soul even more disastrous than any bodily evils? Why not prevent him from reading bad books and seeing bad plays, from looking at bad paintings and statues and listening to bad music? The mischief done by bad ideologies, surely, is much more pernicious, both for the individual and for the whole society, than that done by narcotic drugs." [Ludwig von Mises, *Human Action*, pp. 728-729]
- 1951 According to United Nations estimates, there are approximately 200 million marijuana users in the world, the major places being
- 1951 Twenty thousand pound of opium, three hundred pounds of heroin, and various opium-smoking devices are publicly burned in
- 1954 Four-fifths of the French people questioned about wine assert that wine is "good for one's health," and one quarter hold that it is "indispensable." It is estimated that a third of the electorate in
- 1955 The Prasidium des Deutschen Arztetages declares: "Treatment of the drug addict should be effected in the closed sector of a psychiatric institution. Ambulatory treatment is useless and in conflict, moreover, with principles of medical ethics." The view is quoted approvingly, as representative of the opinion of "most of the authors recommending commitment to an institution," by the World Health Organization in 1962. [World Health Organization, *The Treatment of Drug Addicts*, p. 5]
- 1955 The Shah of
- 1956 The Narcotics Control Act in enacted; it provides the death penalty, if recommended by the jury, for the sale of heroin to a person under eighteen by one over eighteen. [Lindesmith, *The Addict and the Law*, p. 26]